SIXTH GENERATION

594. Chalkley Thorne was born on 9 Aug 1817 in Evesham, Burlington, NJ. He died after 1853 in Unknown. Chalkley Thorn seems to have been cut from a different bolt of cloth than his siblings. From a genealogy done in 1902 on the descendants of Thomas Thorn & Sarah Collins we have this excerpt:

"To his family Chalkley Thorn was always akind man, but to himself he was less so, for he was a victim of temptation to which he yielded, thereby ruining his own existence by intemperance. By employment he was a swaman and, it is said, was uneasy and restless, remaining ashore until his earnings were gone, then putting to sea again. Sometime about 1853 or 1854 he left his family and friends, and of his whereabouts and fate nothing further was poitively known. For several years his brother Thomas had a chest in the garret of his house on ninth & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, which belonged to Chalkley, containing a miscellaneous collection of minerals & natural curios from different lands, which at least revealed that the owner was intellectually inclined. What became of Chalkley Thorn is a question that will always enveloped in mystery." Chalkley Thorn served in the US Navy aboard the Princeton, San Jacinto, Raritan & Wabash. His son searched US Navals records & could find no trace of him serving in the war, so something befell him prior to this.

He was married to Elizabeth Jane Hammell (daughter of Butler Hammell and Esther Austin) on 7 Mar 1840. Elizabeth Jane Hammell was born on 20 May 1818. Chalkley Thorne and Elizabeth Jane Hammell had the following children:

+983 i. Theodore Freylinghausen Thorne.